Abrosaurus

delicate lizard

• abros · Greek · delicate, graceful
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Abrosaurus combines the Greek "abros" (delicate or graceful) with "sauros" (lizard), giving "delicate lizard". It was named for the relatively light, delicate build of its skull, which is the best-known part of the animal. It is a sauropod, a long-necked plant-eating dinosaur.

Named by

Ouyang

Year named

1989

Period

Middle Jurassic

Found in

Lower Shaximiao Formation, Sichuan region, China

Valid sauropod genus; the type species is Abrosaurus dongpoi. It is known mainly from a skull and some other fragmentary remains. Exact stage and fine locality details are not given here because I am not certain of them.